The Business Transformation World Summit Speaker Faculty

2027 Early Confirmed Speakers

Craig Carrington
Chief Transformation Officer
Ford Credit

AJ Wijesinghe
SVP, GBS+ and Chief AI Officer
Ecolab

Kristen Ziegler
Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO)
The Bank of Missouri

Kush Pathak
Senior Vice President, Business Transformation
Lincoln Financial Group

Madhu Mukherjee
VP Head of Transformation and Data Science
USA TODAY Co.

Nan Li
SVP, Head of Global Transformation
Conde Nast

Jean Hammelev
VP Operational Excellence
Sonora Quest Laboratories

Matt Morgan
Chief Operating Officer
Eisneramper

Gerald Lackey
Former Commissioner
Virginia Department Of Motor Vehicles

Marcelo Coelho
Vice President, Continuous Improvement
Equinoxgold

Nellie Wartoft
CEO
Tigerhall

Ryan Mayer
Vice President BD Excellence MDS
BD (Becton Dickinson)

Derek Robinson
Vice President, Business Transformation
Duke Health

Patrick Lenihan
VP Transformation
Eli Lilly and Company

Victoria Saplacan
Head of Business Transformation
E.ON

Rush Fozo
Senior Vice President, Investment Operations Outsourcing
Northern Trust Corporation

Crystal Broj
Digital Transformation Chief & Officer
Medical University of South Carolina

David Pflug
Managing Director, Enterprise Strategic Growth
TIAA

Alexander Breskvar
Corp VP QM&HSE Operations and Supplier Quality
Seimens

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Business Process Excellence
EDP

Kartick Kalaimani
Vice President
Dentsu

Jacques McGregor
Vice President of Digital Transformation
Marathon Petroleum

Andreina Martinez
SVP Business Transformation Leader
Omnicom

Rob Kenny
Executive Director, Operational Strategy & Enablement
BeOne Medicines

Mohit Sheera
Strategic Planning Leader
Terumo BCT Ltd.

Christopher Paquette
Chief Transformation Officer
Personify Health

2026 C-Suite & Chief Transformation Officer Speakers

Anastasia Minor
Chief Transformation Officer
Entergy

Leila Kagawa
Chief Transformation Officer
HEMIC

Kayla Bourgeois
Chief Transformation Officer
Cast & Crew

Reto Sahli
SVP and Chief Information Officer, HAVI Supply Chain
HAVI

David Cuenca
Vice President, Process Transformation – CIO
IBM

Rajesh Krishnan
Senior Partner
McKinsey Transformation

Radhika Ray
Partner
McKinsey Transformation

Allen Mueller
Chief Revenue Officer
Heidrick & Struggles

Laura Klein
Partner, Transformations
Heidrick & Struggles

David Mitchell
Partner, Workforce and Organization Transformation
Mercer

Shannon Favazza
Principal, Firm Planning & Execution Excellence
Edward Jones

Bob Nahmias
Founder and CEO
Shibumi

Chris Hagedorn
Senior Partner, Transformation Practice
McKinsey

2026 Change & Transformation Summit Speakers

Ananth Krishnan
Director, Outcomes Acceleration
Land O'Lakes Inc

Robert Rowello
Global Vice President, Business Transformation
Magna International Inc.

Jennifer Chung
Vice President, Business Operations & Strategic Planning
Northwestern Mutual

Scott Vejdani
Sr. Principal, Organizational Transformation
Epsilon

Stephanie Keck
Director Change Enablement
Cox Automotive

Jon Nichols
Associate Director - Business Planning Center of Excellence
Clorox

Ramona Mills
Organizational Change Management Lead - North America
Agco Corporation

Danielle LaMancuso
Director of Enterprise Change Management
Northwest Bank

Bill Wong
Senior Director, Transformation & Business Insights
GWL Realty Advisors

Aarti Sharma
Director, R&D Strategic Priorities
AbbVie

Sandeep Chennikara
Former Senior Director, Transformation Strategy & Automation
Discover Financial Services

David Pley
Vice President, Strategy & Transformation, North America Automotive
NAPA Auto Parts

Hardeep Kaur
Director Business Transformation, Agility and Change Leadership
Merck, Sharp

Hillel Bierbrier
Vice President - Digital Transformation
Northern Trust Corporation

Thierry Mbandi
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise PMO
Northern Trust Corporation

Sanjay Thirumalai
Chief Global Delivery Officer
stout

John Nolan
SVP, Strategic Change
City National Bank

Becky McDonough
Vice President Business Transformation
Mastercard

Nimesh Akhauri
CEO
The DDC Group

Gregg Clark
Managing Director, Consumer
Catalant

Matt Cybulsky PhD
Managing Director, Healthcare
Catalant

Brenda Cowie
Senior Vice President – North America
QualiWare

Hazel Lord
Founder | President
Pearl Operational Design

Chris Mulh
Partner & Managing Director
AlixPartners

Roeland Vertriest
President, Chief Commercial Officer
Catalant

Peter Lynch
Chief People Officer
Cardinal Group Companies

Marcel Esqueu
VP - Finance Transformation and Financial Close - Corporate Finance
Guardian Life Insurance

Alexander Verkhoven
Former Senior Business Transformation Leader
World Vision Canada

Debora Ridner
Lead, IT Transformation and Organizational Change Management
World Bank Group

Elena Gerdjikova
IT Officer, Client Change Management & Learning I – ITSTM
World Bank Group

Marti Bates
Sr Director - Transformation Office
Edward Jones

David Friedman
Vice President, Project Management
GMMI

2026 OPEX & Continuous Improvement Summit Speakers

Usama Fayyaz
Director of Lean Transformation
Niagara Bottling

Puneet Thakkar
Finance Process Transformation Manager
Google Inc

Rajeev Mishra
Head, Process Architecture
Sobeys

Matt Dathan
Managing Director and Head of Enterprise Transformation
EisnerAmper

Amol Dharmadhikari
Vice President, Operational Excellence
Expedia Group

Sridhar Krishnan
Vice President, Catalent Way
Catalent Pharma Solutions

Dina Patel
Global Head of Product Enablement
S&P Global

Ashley Peal
Director, Business Process Management
Bristol Myers Squibb

Hany Mikhaiel
Vice President, Corporate Continuous Improvement Central Services CI &Cs
B. Braun Medical

Fraser Damoff
Head of Lean Centre of Excellence
Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)

Axel Ramm
Director of Engineering
Whirlpool Corporation

Nathalie Cubero
Head of Continuous Improvement
Experian

Robert Benton
Director, Business Process Operational Excellence
Southern New Hampshire University

Olazhir Ledezma
Executive Vice President Strategic Planning
Bladex

Sergio Bribiesca
SVP Process & Innovation
Bladex

Ashutosh Chaudhari
Senior Director of Process and Automation
Cisive

Iván Céspedes
Continuous Improvement Expert
Roche

Stefana Rule
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Turner Painting

Scott Leddy
VP Sales, North America
GBTEC

Alexander Breskvar
Vice President, Quality Management & EHS
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Dr Charles Brandon
Director, Process Improvement Program Office at HQDA
US Army

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Business Process Excellence
EDP Renewables North America

William Hornsby
Global VP, Operational Excellence
Dana Inc

Sandy Abel
Assistant Vice President, Operational Excellence
Space Coast Credit Union

Keith Clinkscale
Performance Management Director, Strategic Planning
Palm Beach County, FL.

Jeff Slater
Director of Continuous Improvement
PQ Group

Kelly Perry
Associate Director, Operational Excellence
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

2026 Agentic AI Transformation Summit Speakers

Nayaki Perumal
Former Chief Enterprise Architect & AI Leader
Banking Sector

Liz Alberto
Associate. Finance Manager Digital Commerce Reporting & Analytics
Unilever

Keith Masiulis
Associate Director of Finance, NA Operations & Customer Development
Unilever

Diego Fierro
Chief Operating Officer
EFG Capital International Corp

Noufal Basheer
Strategy Director
PepsiCo

Oren Dobzinski
Principal AI Scientist
ModMed

Elizabeth Barth-Thacker
VP Head of Data & Analytics
American Modern

Akshaya Murthy
Business Transformation and Internal Audit Director
Zendesk

Nisheeth Chaudhary
Vice President AI Program Management and Governance
State Street

Margarita Panzer
Senior Director, Digital Transformation
Marathon Petroleum

Anurag Gupta
Vice President
Blackstone

Rob Jones
Executive Director, Global Data Risk Management
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Susan Lin
Director of Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence
Cornell University

Maciej Szymaszek
Head of Strategy & Innovation, Commercial AI
AstraZeneca

Rémi Raphael
Vice President of Digital Technology
Origis Energy

Srav Palepu
Sr Director, Data Platforms and AI Automation
Visa

Eran Nevo
Senior Director Data and AI
Teva Pharmaceutical

Manuel Campos
Director of Data and Analytics
Gerdau North America

Gary Dunbar
Head of Business Transformation
Signal Energy

Ariel Junqueira DeGarcia
Managing Director, AI and Emerging Technologies
Broadridge

Ash Dhupar
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Analog Devices

Paul Joseph
Next Gen Transformation Leader
KeyBank

Swarna Kuruganti
Former Enterprise AI, Data Intelligence
US Foods

Praveen Prahlad Madabhushi Harvard, MBA, MS(MIS), MS(EE)
President
MindSpark AI Technologies LLC

Deepa Chand
Director of Product, Data and AI Governance
GEICO

Jan Hill
Global Head of Business Transformation Advisory
Pigment

Kapil Vyas
CIO
Automation Anywhere

Satish Shenoy
Global Vice President, Technology Alliances and GenAI GTM
Blue Prism

Sam Ferrise
Chief Technology Officer
Trinetix

Molly Leeds
Senior Principal, US Skills Solutions Lead
Mercer, A Marsh Business

Deepak Vasisht
Co-founder and CEO
Worktrace AI

John O'Donnell
Chief Revenue Officer
Alice.IO

Xiao Zhang
Director of Analytics and Data Solutions
University of Chicago

Cassidy Reid
Strategic Program Director - AI/ML & Digital Twin
CAI

Lawrence Shieh
Investor & Client Data Owner
HarbourVest Partners

Gayatri Sharma
Director Digital Transformation
Global Telcom Organization

Talles Roberto
Director of Data Engineering & AI
Moss & Associates

Amit Panalkar
Senior Director, AI and Data Science
Fiserv

Rahul Zende
Senior Principal Data Scientist
Navy Federal Credit Union

2026 Innovation Hall: The Showcase

Ray Lund
Director of Transformation
Owens & Minor

Bill Aimone
Managing Director
Trenegy Inc.

Fabio Ranieri
Head of Digital GTM Innovation
HP

Ram Katuri
Senior Principal, Value Creation, Google Cloud
Google

Tuhin Chakraborty
CEO & Co-Founder
Mimica

Stuart McClure
CEO
Wethos.AI

Michael Kamberov
Global Market Development Manager
BOC Group

Vincent Paquette
BPM & EA Consultant
BOC Group

Cassidy Reid
Strategic Program Director - AI/ML & Digital Twin
CAI

Peter Lynch
Chief People Officer
Cardinal Group Companies

2026 Speakers

Deepan W. Rajah
Executive Director, Head of Business Transformation
JP Morgan Chase

Eric Tatum
Executive Director, Head of Operational Excellence
JPMorgan Chase

Peter Emmett
Director, Enterprise Data Operations
Cardinal Health

Terry Simpson
Manager, Solutions Engineering
Nintex

Filip Swat
Head of Advisory AI & Automation
Ashling

Chas Moore
Executive Partner -Transformation
Chazey Partners

Dima Syrotkin
CEO, Co-Founder
Pandatron

Robert Newland
Chief Growth Officer
Pandatron

Anika Schurmann
Director of Enterprise Excellence
Motion

Erja Klemola
Chief Operating Officer
Pandatron

Pascal Foelix
VP Intelligent Operations Solutions
Cognitio Analytics

Kim Huggins
Managing Director
Havior

John Dale
Managing Director
Havior

Erin Thibault
Director
Havior

Kenya Wada
SVP and Chief Global Business Officer
NTT DATA INTRAMART

Shoeb Javed
Chief Product Officer
iGrafx

Laura Barnard
Co-Founder
Global Transformation Group

Alexander David
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Global Transformation Group

Greg Asher
Lumi AI Developer
Chazey Partners

Romona Brown
President, North America
Prosci

Christina Ehrlich
Change Enablement & Transformation Leader
Gilead Sciences

Daniel Dantus
VP Agentic AI Solutions
Skan AI

Steve Schrader
Senior Solution Consulting Manager
ABBYY

Scott Chitty
Senior Business Development Manager
ABBYY

Brian LeBlond
Senior Pre-Sales Engineer
ABBYY

Vinaykumar Mummigatti
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Customer Transformation
SKAN.AI

Joe Graziani
Process Improvement Director
JP Morgan Chase

MEET THE 2027BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AWARDS JUDGING PANEL:

Ruben Del Toro
Vice President of Continuous Improvement
Freeman & Company

Kartick Kalaimani
Vice President
Dentsu

Rush Fozo
Senior Vice President, Investment Operations Outsourcing
Northern Trust Corporation

Ekaterina Curry
Managing Director, Head of Operations, Multifamily/LeaseTrack
Millennial Specialty Insurance

Cristian Matei
CEO
Advanced Thinking

Larry Crews
Senior Process Engineer
Cigna

Glenn Johnson
Process Excellence Manager
Velera

Samantha Bureau-Johnson
Senior Vice President Enterprise Change Management Executive and Customer Experience
First Citizens Bank

Jason Schulist
President
Generative Local Community Institute

Beth Johnson
Director, Head of Credit Card Operations for Consumer Finance
Goldman Sachs

FOR TRANSFORMATION LEADERS, BY TRANSFORMATION LEADERS | MEET THE 2027 ADVISORY BOARD:

Carolyn Lum
Retired Vice President, Operational Excellence
Philip Morris International

Patrick Lenihan
VP Transformation
Eli Lilly and Company

Kartick Kalaimani
Vice President
Dentsu

Alexander Breskvar
Vice President, Quality Management & EHS
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Business Process Excellence
EDP Renewables North America

Derek Robinson
Vice President, Business Transformation
Duke Health

Victoria Saplacan
Head of Business Transformation
E.ON

Ryan Mayer
Vice President BD Excellence MDS
BD (Becton Dickinson)

Crystal Broj
Digital Transformation Chief & Officer
Medical University of South Carolina

Christopher Paquette
Chief Transformation Officer
Personify Health

Samantha Bureau-Johnson
SVP & Director, Customer Contact Center
First Citizens Bank

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Business Process Excellence
EDP

Gerald Lackey
Commissioner
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Beth Johnson
Director, Head of Credit Card Operations for Consumer Finance
Goldman Sachs

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